Invalidation of Safe Harbor Turns Up Privacy Heat on Facebook
The October ruling by the European Court of Justice that the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and the European Commission was invalid is about to increase Facebook’s legal work load.
The October ruling by the European Court of Justice that the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and the European Commission was invalid is about to increase Facebook’s legal work load.
Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group filed an updated complaint with Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, as well as similar complaints with the Commission for the Protection of Privacy in Belgium and the Hamburg Data Protection Authority in Germany.
Schrems was emboldened to file all of those complaints by the invalidation of the Safe Harbor agreement, and he said in a statement, as reported by TechCrunch:
We want to ensure that this very crucial judgement is also enforced in practice when it comes to the U.S.
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